Mayor warns of oil-by-rail hazard after North Dakota explosion

“Thank God no one got killed,” said Olivia Chow, the New Democratic Party’s transportation critic. The parallels with the Quebec tragedy are clear, she said. “It’s the same kind of oil, same kind of train.”

The NDP MP argues that governments on both sides of the border ought to force the railway industry to upgrade such container cars urgently – given how they pass through many towns and cities, including her own riding in Trinity-Spadina.